Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth19 May 1933
education play analysis
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
assessment historical assumption
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
church comfort spirituality
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
funny-relationship loyal unreliable
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
progress answers littles
A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
creativity thinking humour
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
feelings logic disguise
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.
ideas creative able
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
together analysis elements
Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
self ego favors
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
found thinker knows
The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'
ideas characteristics obvious
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
dream encouragement tired
I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
encouragement responsibility moon
America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.